FINDING AID

AUBURN UNIVERSITY SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES

Guide
to the James
S. Edwards Collection, RG 417

Biographical
Sketch:James S. Edwards (U.S. Army Air Force), a bomber radio
operator, jumped out of his damaged plane and was captured by the Germans in
Budapest, Hungary in World War II.

Scope / Content:Contains one homemade diary (80 pages) and cigarette case of James
S. Edwards. Edwards wrote the diary on the back of old German postcards.
The journal describes his experience as a German prisoner of war, and he
mentions other P.O.W.s that he met during his imprisonment.He made the cigarette case out of tin scraps, and it contains
14 unfiltered cigarettes.